How nice that the Japanese beer companies make their money outside Japan where they can sell beer cheaper than at home. Haposhu is drunk by Japanese who won't pay the high price for real beer. Incredible is the fact that beer is highly taxed because it contains a certain level of hops.

8:57 pm September 20, 2014

Dominick Yarmitsky wrote:

Robert, they vary. It's up on the authors. Many on the letters coming up are handwritten, or hand-notated, it's about half and half. Though most of your first letters were typed. The fourth letter was a comic.

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